WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. | In private, even the stylish former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis admitted to tiring of the all-black attire long considered chic in New York City.

“I just love this suit & will wear it everywhere as I am SO sick of everyone constantly in black — like Mediterranean villages where everyone is in mourning for 20 years,” she once wrote to Bill Hamilton, then the design director at Carolina Herrera.

LAS VEGAS | Smartwatches don’t have to look ugly to be functional. Clothing and accessories designers are collaborating with engineers to produce computerized wristwatches that people will want to wear all day and night.

Friends of Advantage, the Foundation of Advantage Behavioral Health Systems, will host its fourth annual Designer’s Challenge and Top Model Competition Feb. 5 and is currently seeking seamstresses and/or designers to be paired with models to create teams that will redesign outdated dresses to be displayed on the fashion runway.

Anyone interested in participating in the designer challenge is invited to attend a meet-and-greet event 6 p.m. Thursday at Morton Theatre located at 195 W. Washington St.

Sienna & Bellini, a new fashion label based in Atlanta, opened its doors in Athens on Friday at Georgia Square Mall.

This is the third store for the fashion label, which provides high-end European styles at affordable prices.

“We believe that fashion should be attainable,” said Valentina Pou, co-owner and lead designer for Sienna & Bellini. “We want to provide an affordable style option and help support and grow the fashion culture in any market where we open stores.”

NEW YORK (AP) — A leather jacket tagged by Jean-Michel Basquiat and other personalities of New York City's 1980s underground art scene is hitting the auction block.

The size 42 coat has a pre-sale estimate of $7,000 to $10,000 at Swann Auction Galleries' contemporary art sale on Wednesday.

The auction house said the supple white leather jacket is being sold by the original owner, Rico Espinet, the stage manager and lighting director of the legendary after-hours nightclub Danceteria from 1981 to 1986 who now owns an art and design store in Brooklyn.

EPERNAY, France (AP) — Deep in the labyrinthine cellars of the Pol Roger champagne house, rows of century-old bottles caked in mold bear testimony to perhaps the greatest, and surely the most heroic of vintages.

As champagne goes, 1914 was a superlative year when the warmest of summers left the richest of grapes. As war goes, gunfire could be heard just beyond the hills and most men were off fighting in the horrors of World War I.

NEW YORK (AP) — At his Fashion Week runway show in September, Oscar de la Renta sat in his usual spot: in a chair right inside the wings, where he could carefully inspect each model just as she was about to emerge in one of his sumptuous, impeccably constructed designs.